LeoSavernik &tde-authors; &tde-release-version; Reviewed: &tde-release-date; 2003 Leo Savernik &tde-copyright-date; &tde-team; This handbook describes the data protocol. TDE data protocol Data URLs allow small document data to be included in the URL itself. This is useful for very small HTML testcases or other occasions that do not justify a document of their own. data:,foobar (note the comma after the colon) will deliver a text document that contains nothing but foobar The last example delivered a text document. For HTML documents one has to specify the MIME type text/html: data:text/html,<title>Testcase</title><p>This is a testcase</p>. This will produce exactly the same output as if the content had been loaded from a document of its own. Specifying alternate character sets is also possible. Note that 8-Bit characters have to be escaped by a percentage sign and their two-digit hexadecimal codes: data:;charset=iso-8859-1,Gr%FC%DFe aus Schl%E4gl results in Grüße aus Schlägl whereas omitting the charset attribute might lead to something like Gr??e aus Schl?gl IETF RFC2397 provides more information.